Power is knowing which rules are real and which are just habits everyone follows.

From the inside, rules and habits look identical. Both are just what everybody does. The difference is that breaking a real rule has a consequence attached, while breaking a habit only produces a moment of awkwardness, and people avoid both as though they were the same size. Most of the walls around you are the second kind.

Pick one thing you assume is not allowed and simply ask: a different class, a changed shift, an extra attempt. Keep every real rule carefully. Treat the others as questions that have not been asked yet.